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Creating Realistic Miniature Bases with Wasteland Tufts
Learn how to enhance your miniatures with Wasteland Tufts and create stunning, realistic bases that tell a story. Perfect for all skill levels.
Getting Fanatical in the Age of Darkness with Medders' Miniatures
The Horus Heresy doesn't need to be all doom and gloom when it comes to your colour schemes. Learn how to make your models pop with Warpaints Fanatic while still retaining that key Heresy flavour f...
The Army Painter Heads To The NOVA Open
The 2024 NOVA Open is fast approaching and its chocked full of gaming and hobby events you won't want to miss, and neither did we. That's why The Army Painter will be in attendance in full force wi...
The Hero Workshop and The Army Painter
Here at The Army Painter, we believe in spreading the joys of the miniature painting hobby to as many people as possible - a passion shared by The Hero Workshop, a non-profit that focuses on organi...
The Captain Challenge: Our Top Paint Picks
You've watched the video and voted for your favourite Space Marine Captain, now discover the top 5 paints from across our ranges used on each model, as picked by the painters themselves!
Designing the Fanatic Most Wanted Goblin Warchief
Learn about the design of the exclusive Goblin Warchief miniature included for free in the Fanatic Most Wanted Paint Set as we chat with Ziga, the CEO and Creative Director at Freecompany - the cre...
Creating Realistic Miniature Bases with Woodland Tufts
Learn how to enhance your miniatures with Woodland Tufts and create stunning, realistic bases that tell a story. Perfect for all skill levels.
The Army Painter Heading to Gen Con
Gen Con is one of the most storied names in the tabletop and RPG industry when it comes to conventions, with the very first one being held way back in 1968. It’s a staple in many hobbyists’ social ...
The Arena of Escalation: The Armies Take Shape - Part 2
Don your best full-dress uniform and muster the troops, it's time to join the armies on parade at the Arena of Escalation. Check out all the amazing models added to our growing Warhammer 40,000 co...
The Arena of Escalation: The Armies Take Shape - Part 1
There’s nothing more satisfying than when an army project finally starts looking like an actual army and now we’ve finally reached that point in the Arena of Escalation, our Warhammer 40,000 escala...
The Army Painter at the San Diego Comic-Con!
The San Diego Comic-Con is likely the most well-known, famous, and coveted convention in every collective nerdom's hallowed halls, and this year Dipit’s wildest dreams are finally coming true - The...
The Army Painter Academy: Hammers of Sigmar Stormcast Eternal
Grab your hammer and don your sigmarite armour, it's time to save the Mortal Realms with this golden Stormcast Eternal from the Hammers of Sigmar! Learn how to paint Sigmar's finest with our gleami...
The Army Painter Factory Team Conquers the Skaventide
We reached out to several members of The Army Painter Factory Team to see what wonderful creations they had devised from the new Skaventide box set for Age of Sigmar. Find out what chittering creat...
Painting the T'au | Hobbying for the Greater Good
The newest kids on the grim dark block of Games Workshop's Warhammer 40,000 setting, aka the T’au Empire, are known for their vivid colour schemes. Here at The Army Painter, we’ve compiled a select...
The Arena of Escalation: Hobby Progress
Discover all the hobby progress achieved by our intrepid contestants in the Arena of Escalation, as they add their first vehicles, elite units, and other unique miniatures to their growing Warhamme...
Creating Realistic Miniature Bases with Scorched Tufts
Learn how to enhance your miniatures with Scorched Tufts and create stunning, realistic bases that tell a story. Perfect for all skill levels.
The Army Painter Academy: Genestealer Cults
Beware reader, the insidious Genestealer Cults have successfully infiltrated the Academy this week to show us how to quickly paint up a horde of these upright citizens. Grab your Speedpaint along w...
Fanatic Starter Set Knights - Painted by You!
See just a few of our favourite renditions of the stoic Fanatic Starter Set knight from the hobby community at large and what their painter's thought about the new Starter Set.
Tips From The Painting Desk: Dipit's Post Roundup
Welcome to the first roundup of our Tips From The Painting Desk posts! A staple of our social media accounts - these mini-tutorials explore a number of techniques and styles using Warpaints Fanatic...
The Army Painter Academy: Krootox Rider
Welcome to the next installment of The Army Painter Academy; a series where we break down how we paint a miniature step-by-step, complete with pictures for every bit of paint applied along the way....
A Beginner’s Guide: Warpaints Fanatic Starter Paint Set
The Warpaints Fanatic Starter Paint Set is perfect for beginners, offering everything you need to paint the included mini from start to finish. To put this to the test we’ve enlisted Cecilie, a cop...
Get a professional painter’s insight into brushes for miniature painting. How many brushes do you need, how to clean your brushes, and why you should keep your old and damaged brushes?
Creating Realistic Miniature Bases with Meadow Flowers
Learn how to enhance your miniatures with Meadow Flowers Tufts and create stunning and realistic bases that tell a story. Perfect for all skill levels.
Fanatic on Fanatics: Chaos Takes Hold at The Army Painter
Warpaints Fanatic has been unleashed upon the miniature painting world, and there’s no one quite as fanatical as the Chaos Space Marines of Warhammer 40,000. See what our own collection of heretica...